Sonic, Mad Max and more Sega and Warner Bros games coming to NVIDIA Shield

Owners of NVIDIA's Shield devices will soon be able to play nine more games, via the GeForce Now streaming service. The games come from publishers Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Sega.

NVIDIA says that four Sonic the Hedgehog games will be part of this new addition to GeForce Now. Sega will also throw in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and Alpha Protocol. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will add two of its movie-based games to the service: Mad Max and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Those new titles will give users of GeForce Now 100 PC games that can be streamed and played on the Shield products.

i have an ipad mini 2 64gb with cellular I bought last year new a few months before I got this one (when the k1 came out) and paid the same price at 225.00. No tax on the ipad and paid tax on the shield so they came out the same. I had planned on dumping ios as I did my iphone for the moto x pure and love it. The shield is very cheaply made, power button is horrible, charging cable is on top, laggy, very poor battery life and very slow charging. Plus it uses power faster than it charges so you can't game while charging. A tablet touted for gaming getting 2-3 hours on a charge is ridiculous. I have used a number of chargers with it including quick charge and it's just a horrible tablet. The thin rubber strips over the speakers started coming back and I sent it to nvidia so they sent me a new one. Android has less games/apps optimized for tablets and for the same price an ipad 2 generations old blows it away badly for the same price. Even at 100.00 more the ipad would be well worth it. The youngest has a 1st generation ipad and it blows this away.

You and I obviously have different ideas of what what a tablet should do well.

I have seen other posts on battery life, power button, slow charging and charging slower than using if you are doing anything on the tablet so mine is not unique. I believe people that think this is a great tablet have not used a good tablet.

It's sitting here in the box right now unopened waiting to be sold and I am back with the ipad mini. Still have my moto x pure and not going back to iphone but if this is an example of a good android tablet then this is my last.

It's unfortunate that you had an experience lower than your expectation, but I still wouldn't agree that it's overrated. I have used many tablets including iPads, and this one suits my needs very well. Perhaps it's just not the right tablet for you. I wouldn't say the iPad is overrated just because they're not ideal for me. Also, keep in mind that if you search for any issue (real or perceived), you will find someone who can speak to it. Glad to hear your entire experience with Android hasn't been below your expectations. That's part of the beauty of it all....Be Together, Not the Same

I'm not new to android. I have been here since the beginning, just left for one iphone and got a tablet in the process. Left with ics and came back with lollipop. Ran the tablet stock on lollipop, then marshmallow. Then rooted and tried roms of each. No more android tablets for me So android was not new, already had a ton of paid android apps.

I understand what you are saying but the ipad has none of the shortcomings of this one such as bad battery life and slow charging. Not a preference thing but shortcomings.

If you have no intention of playing either your own PC games or Ge Force now (previously Grid) games on your tablet or TV via HDMI, then the Shield is probably not the best choice of a tablet.

Casual tablet gamers are obviously going to have a better experience on an iPad given overall better build quality and app access.

That said, I'm not aware of any way of playing Crysis on an iPad at this time. If there is one, it's definitely not included in the stock software.

And while the Shield tablet does pertain to this article, it's actually about GeForce Now, which is available on the Shield TV as well as the handheld.

Not everyone is going to value a service like what Nvidia is building, but I think there are enough people out there even now that it's more than viable from a business standpoint, especially as the average home network gets faster and more sophisticated.

Why render on weak console (or worse yet tablet) hardware when you can leverage beastly rigs that crank everything to 11 and still attain 60 fps?

If you've never asked these questions, you're probably not Nvidia's target audience.

Crysis, never heard of it and really don't care. You mention build quality and app access, yes but there is also battery time (all day using it) where the nvidia is somewhere between 2-3 hours and charging speed. I don't consider it a good choice if I were only web surfing. Bad battery times. If it had turbo charge it would make some difference, at least charge faster than it uses juice. Laggy, it's far more laggy than this ipad mini 2 which is not laggy at all. I TRULY wanted to like it as I do not like apple's "walled garden".

I don't see the point though. Casual gaming the ipad is fine or even my moto x pure is better. Heavier then it's to a console.

I am an old timer, started building computers with dos, so I am just a casual gamer. Used to play a lot but would get a console if I still played above an ipad.

The point is it's marketed as a gaming machine and you can hardly do anything at all due to the horrible battery time.

I like android, but android tablets seem like an afterthought. I have a bunch of apps and games on my phone that looked horrible on the shield.

I will be staying with the android phone and will probably not have another tablet after I get tired of this one, but for sure no more android tablets. Maybe see what the future brings with the surface.